Emanuela Ligal known as "Ligal" in the artwork lives in Padova, the city where she was born in 1958, but in the past she has lived in Tuscany, London and, extremely important for her artistic and personal development, in the Tosho-ji in Kyoto, a Japanese Buddhist temple, where she discovered and embraced the Zen philosophy.

She started drawing at the age of seventeen. In 1984, the entry in the Dance Room of Matisse at the Metropolitan Museum marked another fundamental moment in her artistic life, a "huge revelation", as she reports. She then decided to study art at the Academy of Fine Arts in Venice. In 1996 she finally started to paint on canvass and from that day she has never stopped. She has exhibited around Italy, and in 2000 she held an important personal exhibition in New York City.

The intensity in which she has always lived her life is deeply reflected in her artworks, where the creative surge born from the nucleus of all her past experiences. Ligal, with her work, explores the eternal and human dualism between mask and face, truth and pretence, topicality and virtuality, dream and reality that result in a mystery and alchemic world, an attractive universe of feelings
Emanuela Galli Ligal in arte Ligal

Vive in Padova, la citt dove nata nel 1958,

Ma ha vissuto per alcuni periodi in Toscana, Londra e, estremamente importante per il suo sviluppo artistico e personale, nel Tosho-ji a Kyoto (Tokio), un tempio buddista giapponese, in cui ha scoperto ed abbracciato la filosofia Zen.

Ha cominciato disegnare all'et di diciassette.

Nel 1984, l'entrata nella sala di Matisse, con quadri di danza, al museo metropolitano ha contrassegnato un altro momento fondamentale nella sua vita artistica, "una rivelazione enorme", come segnala.

Allora ha deciso di seguire un corso d'arte all'Accademia delle arti fini a Venezia.

Nel 1996 infine ha dipingere su tela da quel giorno non si arrestata mai.

L'intensit in cui ha vissuto sempre la sua vita, profondamente riflessa nelle sue opere, in cui l'impulso creativo sopportato dal nucleo di tutte le sue esperienze precedenti.

Ligal, con il suo lavoro, esplora il dualismo fra la maschera e faccia, la verit e la menzogna, l'attualit e la virtualit, il sogno e la realt, eterni ed umani che provocano un mistero e un mondo alchemico, un universo attraente delle sensibilit.

Emanuela Ligal Galli naci en 1958 en Padua, Italia, donde vive y trabaja. Pinta y dibuja desde 1977. Vivi en Londres y en Toscana. Ha sido fundamental para su crecimiento personal y artstico la experiencia que dur un ao, en el monasterio budista oriental Tosho-ji en Tokio, donde conoci la cultura de Zen.
En el ao 2000 hace su primera exposicin individual importante en Nueva York.
Emanuela ha vivido siempre de una manera profunda y tal intensidad se refleja con fuerza y brillantez en sus pinturas donde el ajuste creativo aflora de la base de todas sus experiencias previas. En la banalidad evidente de la existencia, ve la mscara que ella y otras personas utilizan en el mbito diario.
La irona, originalidad, son marcadas por las formas en negrilla y los colores brillantes, usados siempre con mucha habilidad. Se siente bien en la naturaleza, pero viviendo en una sociedad compleja, decidi ser artista.
Para sus trabajos utiliza el acrlico, los fragmentos de colores brillantes, en tonos irnicos y felices, componen estas caras. Investiga, a partir de una observacin y un anlisis acerca de la condicin del hombre en la sociedad moderna, el dualismo eterno y humano entre la mscara y la cara, verdad, sueo y realidad. La cara humana tiende a perder las caractersticas personales para transformarse y combinarse en una dimensin fantstica.
Tarde o temprano, todos descubrimos dentro de nosotros mismos la capacidad que tenemos para auto-regenerarnos, sin buscar fuentes externas, simplemente buscando en nosotros mismos las energas para hacerlo.
Es como quitarnos una mscara y reconstruirnos en una nueva persona que se adapte mejor a las nuevas circunstancias que tenemos que hacer frente.
Es un circuito cerrado, en el cual la parte malvada y la energa negativa se cambian y se transforman en algo nuevo, peculiar y personal.

Emanuela Ligal

born and work in Padua (Italy) but she has sojourned in Tuscany, in London and fundamental for her personal and artistic growth has been the experience lasted one year, at the oriental Buddhist monastery Tosho-ji in Tokyo, were she has known the Zen culture.

In 2000 she has make an important personal exhibition in New York.

Emanuela Ligal has always lived in a deep manner and such intensity is reflected with strength and brilliance also in her paintings where the creative fit born from the core of all her past experiences.

The artist realizes works in acrylic in which the human visage became mask is the main subject.

Fragments of bright colours, i